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I think I’d rather they were feted like kings–if they were forced to eat what third worlders eat they might get a crazy altruistic hair up their nose and give away even more of my money to third world despots.

Elected officials and government employees are rapidly becoming the new aristocracy. They order the serfs to sacrifice while they do not. They are not subject to the same laws that the serfs are. The serfs no longer own their property but pay rent to their lords. Their work and income are confiscated in order to keep their lords in the style in which they have become accustomed. The benevolent masters in return run their lives, keep them safe and dispense their justice and guidance – in other words rule them.

[…] rather, another perfect symptom of the same sort of disease that leads moralizing bureaucrats to dine on 19-dish meals shortly before heading off to inform the leaders of developing countries that their people will […]